Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Award winning author of Historical Mysteries: Murder in Old Bombay and the Captain Jim and Lady Diana series.
73 followers 20 following 92 posts
view profile on Bluesky
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
Judges are the last defense against #dictatortrump
The purge continues. This is what dictators do #trumpdictator
“As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one’s life or one’s work,” Leonard Cohen said, in 2016.
The More We Know
I realize it's been 5 years but how is it no one remembers the early days of the covid pandemic and how scared we were? I was waiting for medical doctors and epidemiologists to do their thing and save us. I welcomed the vaccine after I almost died. Does no one remember how bad it was?!
Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Release the Epstein Files! Now!!! #TrumpPedoFiles
Saddened to hear of the passing of Dr. Rossiter, who told the stories of the many forgotten and underappreciated women of science. Like many women of her generation, she survived academia by developing a tough exterior, but her support for jr women, myself included, was unwavering. RIP, Margaret.
Migrants sent by the US to the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba earlier this year faced “abusive and inhumane detention conditions” that seriously affected their physical and mental health and even led to some suicide attempts, according to a new report by Human Rights Watch.
It’s just propaganda. Taking cues from Nazi germany
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
“It feels like the CDC is over.” Current and former CDC officials say that the departure of several top leaders will further undermine the agency’s ability to provide reliable guidance to Americans, Tom Bartlett reports.
‘Racist as hell’: Trump’s cabinet is almost all white, and he keeps firing Black officials
Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson will sign an executive order Saturday laying out initial plans for how the city will try to resist President Donald Trump’s planned immigration crackdown in the coming days. https://cnn.it/41r6v4z
“Blind obedience to authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” — Albert Einstein (1879–1955)
It’s the day of the moron!
Let that sink in.
"She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it. She was not protecting lives at a gate in Iraq; she was forcing her way through windows in the Capitol to stop the peaceful transfer of power." New from @markhertling.bsky.social:
@nealkatyal.bsky.social: “You’ve got the president who's imposed the largest tax increase on American consumers since 1993 … and he did it without Congress saying one word. That is not our constitutional structure.”
But this kind of tragedy is what #republicans want. Actions speak louder than thoughts and prayers.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
The tragic loss of children’s lives in the Minneapolis school shooting is a moral call to act. Congress must pass real gun safety laws, ban assault weapons, close loopholes, and invest in community safety. Protecting our children is more important than protecting the gun lobby.
Neil deGrass Tyson: "How sad it must be believing that scientists, historians, scholars, economists, journalists devoted their entire lives to deceiving you, but a reality-TV star proven in court to be a lying felon is your beacon of truth & honesty"
Two children were killed, and 18 children between the ages 6 and 15 were injured by a shooter. Middle schoolers acted heroically to protect others, a parent said.
More thoughts and prayers but #republicans love their guns more than their kids. #usa
‘No cause exists under the law’: Federal Reserve governor Lisa Cook responds to Trump’s move to fire her – live
www.msnbc.com/deadline-whi...
The legal chaos around the nomination of Alina Habba for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in New Jersey is a “glimpse into the dubious methods by which Trump has bent the rules to stock his government with loyalists,” Quinta Jurecic argues.
one sign that the “unitary executive” is less the restoration of an older constitutional order and more the imposition of a radical new one is that allowing the president to act untethered from most legal or congressional limits has largely just served to plunge the country into disorder
“This is about the President of the United States and his complicit lackey, Stephen Miller, searching for ways to lay the groundwork to circumvent our democracy, militarize our cities, and end elections.” – Gov. J.B. Pritzker
In a small town in County Cork, Ireland, a monument stands in appreciation to the American Choctaw Indian Tribe. Although impoverished, shortly after being forced to walk the Trail of Tears, the tribe somehow gathered $170 to send to Ireland for famine relief in 1847 [Historic Vids]
Them: “Stopping talking about Texas in California” Me: “No
"Any healthy democracy includes widespread civic participation, fair & free elections open to all, equal civil rights, & an appreciation of diversity . . . Christian nationalism opposes these factors in at least three aspects." andrewwhitehead.substack.com/p/how-christ...
My interview with #writersandillustratorsofthefuture is live! #listen and enjoy our chat about, what else, #books and #writing! And yes, I think writing mysteries is harder than Sf! writersofthefuture.com/podcast/epis...
The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.
Sharing books with her children was about a lot more than literacy, Ilana Kurshan writes.
Vacation-prone frauds with armed entourages preaching virtue? Boo them louder. Hypocrisy deserves an audience.
“There is no Epstein list” - Ghislaine Maxwell Well Ghislaine, when you take all the rich and powerful people who regularly spent time with Epstein on his island, planes, boats parties etc and write them all down on a piece of paper… That’s the Epstein list. Hope this helps.
My short story comes out in this anthology on Sep 19! It’s edited by @tarunsaint and pubbed by #hachette hooray!
@standas1.bsky.social
#dictatortrump fired #cops for upholding the law. Any doubt that we are in a #policestate?
DC under military control. Texas detaining officials. ICE disappearing people. President attacking mail-in voting. Only California fighting back.
My article is in #thestrand woohoo! #sherlockholmes www.mysterycenter.com/2025/08/14/b...
bookriot.com/penguin-rand...
Thanks to the modern miracle of American voter's stupidity and a morally bankrupt madman, we will no longer have to imagine what that's like.
Just leaving this here for no apparent reason.
Protesters are flooding DC streets to demand two things: that the National Guard be recalled and that the Epstein files be released. We stand with you, DC. Lawmakers, where are YOU? It's your job to stop this. #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory
Newsom: "He doesn't play by a different set of rules. He doesn't believe in the rules. As a consequence, we need to disabuse ourselves of the way things have been done. It's not enough to just hold hands, have a candlelight vigil, talk about way the world should be...we have got to meet fire w/fire"
He spends $200 MILLION of your💰on a ballroom and his family doesn’t deny making billions off his presidency. As you cheer for him caging brown ice cream men & kids, he invades DC to cover a child sex trafficking ring and trashes the constitution to cling to power. He laughs.
Hey, guys. Guess what we’re not talking about any more.
In response to LAPD’s outrageous and violent violations of our temporary restraining order on Friday, lawyers for @lapressclub.bsky.social have filed for contempt. 10 journalists were battered, bloodied, zip-tied, and/or kettled. LAPD can’t police itself. Now it must answer to the judge it defied.
While we live in a Fox-News nation, Finland has started teaching school children how to identify fake news and propaganda as a part of its curriculum. Be like Finland.
For the idiots who said the orange felon would never be allowed to become a Dictator in the US, take a look at him literally seizing total control of Washington DC despite no legitimate reason other than to consolidate power and militarize the area he’s in just because he can.
I’m sick of living in a world where we have to play make-believe that there are any meaningful ideas on the right. These are deeply unserious people, and anyone who thinks there’s any reasonable middle ground with them already has clown makeup on.
First it was troops in L.A., sent to provoke and assault peaceful protesters under the banner of “immigration enforcement.” Now it’s troops in our capital to disappear the homeless. See the pattern? Sooner or later, the monster comes for us all.
Donald Trump is using an imaginary crime spike in D.C. to deliver the authoritarian government his party once warned about, @dgraham.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.
I'm not about to see the end of democracy without a fight. How about you?
The core of our message should be about everyday life in America, and how much better it could be - with different leadership and different policies.
#USDemocracy Protesters are flooding DC streets to demand two things: that the National Guard be recalled and that the Epstein files be released. We stand with you, DC! Help spread the word: social.demcast.com/toolkit/3fdc...
Morning and thank you everyone for your support. The LAPD just rushed in last night and started beating people. They didn’t give warning or call an unlawful assembly at that time. A few officers were very aggressive and brutal wit the press who were in a group on the sidewalk on the right.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s decision to cancel nearly half a billion dollars in federal funding for mRNA vaccine development is the "most dangerous public health decision" ever, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm said.
The CEO of a a multi-trillion dollar company went to the White House, openly handed the US president a gift made of gold, and his company got a special exemption to tariffs the president has illegally imposed. Also, the Founders took bribery so seriously the Constitution bans it 3 separate times.
It’s the British Museum again, so you know what that means
I love this! Complaints from 3000 years ago!
mainandvine Lisa
A landmass ruled by thugs is a police state #usa
And that’s what a hero looks like. RIP friend
We are in a police state. Most of us just haven’t noticed yet
This is the swamp. We put the alligators in charge #youvotedforthisshit
#corruption from our shit #potus
Epstein victims speak out: This "smacks of a cover up." Several victims have sent letters to the judges who will decide whether to grant the DOJ’s request to unseal the grand jury materials in their cases.
A $200 million ballroom, and now this. He doesn’t ever plan on leaving.
We have a #moronpresident
Yeah another excuse to cheat our service people. #shameonusa
Shame shame #shame #trumpgestapo at work. #youvotedforthis shit
So that pharma companies now need to bribe him. #votethebumsout
But he’s been that way for a decade
Joe Biden was hounded for his age-related gaffes, but Trump's increasingly strange behavior has largely been ignored. www.theguardian.com/...
Who is that moron? Never heard of him and now am likely to forget him entirely.
Peter Thiel said women should not vote in 2009 and despite that people remained willing to associate him, revealing a truly gaping lack of morality and judgement both in his friends and his business associates
In The Need for Roots, Simone Weil argued that lying to the public was a crime so severe it should be punished in line with forms of treason. For many reasons, I don’t think the criminal law is the way to handle this. But I am perplexed we give so much air time to pathological liars.
Madness. Remember when #dictatortrump said “you won’t have to vote again?” #youvotedforthis madness
Hooyay!